#bluechecks — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bluechecks, aggregated by home.social.
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TechCrunch: ICE becomes one of the most-blocked accounts on Bluesky after its verification. “ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has now become the No. 3 most-blocked account on Bluesky, after receiving its official verification on Friday, according to third-party trackers.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/22/techcrunch-ice-becomes-one-of-the-most-blocked-accounts-on-bluesky-after-its-verification/ -
De boetes van de EU voor Twitter hebben niks van doen met censuur of vrijheid van meningsuiting:
https://www.techpolicy.press/the-eus-fine-against-x-is-not-about-speech-or-censorship/
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Engadget: X is once again selling checkmarks to US sanctioned groups, report says. “X has once again been accepting payments from people associated with terrorist groups and other entities subject to US sanctions, according to a new report from the Tech Transparency Project (TTP). According to the report, X has not only accepted payments in exchange for its premium service, but in some cases […]
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TechCrunch: Bluesky launches blue check verification. “Bluesky announced on Monday that it is rolling out blue check verification, confirming previous rumors that this feature was on its way to the platform. Like Twitter’s original blue check (RIP), Bluesky’s blue check will verify that notable accounts are legitimate, making it easy for users to trust that an account’s posts are real.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/22/techcrunch-bluesky-launches-blue-check-verification/
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The #EU Is Coming for X’s Paid #BlueChecks
Elon Musk’s paid blue-check system on X deceives users and can be abused by malicious actors, the #EuropeanUnion said today.
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https://twitter.com/ThierryBreton/status/1811699711591489637
Thierry Breton su X: "Back in the day, #BlueChecks used to mean trustworthy sources of information✔️🐦 Now with X, our preliminary view is that: ❌They deceive users ❌They infrige #DSA X has now the right of defence —but if our view is confirmed we will impose fines
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Any evidence that Elon is responding to #xitter losing users to #threads? #BlueChecks
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‘X’ Restores Free Blue Checks For Those With Large Followings
#Culture #News #BlueChecks #ElonMusk #Twitterhttps://deadline.com/2024/04/twitter-restores-free-blue-checks-for-large-followings-1235875664/
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@lynndeborah am a real person, i always prefer reading posts from real people not #sheeple #bluechecks #twitter
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The article predicted that “Step 2” would involve a “Coordinated pressure campaign” by the #ADL & other nonprofit groups to get #Musk to reinstate the bans…. “A vast constellation of activists & non-profits” will lurch into action to “put more & more pressure on the company to change its ways,” the article reads.
The next step, the …article predicted, would be the “Exodus of the bluechecks.”
…Musk experimented w/& ultimately eliminated #Twitter’s #verification system of “#bluechecks.”
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Thinking about how #mastodon (and the #Fediverse in general) is great for #academia / #scientists, because not only do science deniers have less reach on this site without their #BlueChecks, but we have servers dedicated to various scientific fields, moderated by members of that community. This gives them an easy way to talk to each other, as a small community, which simultaneously functions as a way for them to talk in public in front of all of us, so we can see what they're working on, and chime in. (It also allows them to avoid constantly having to fend off hoards of science deniers, because most servers moderate them, and the ones that don't can be blocked.)
That's what's great about #Fediverse: every group can find a space that's uniquely tailored to them, but still connected to the whole world.
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Cross posting from #Twitter...
> Suddenly feeling like the best reason to #BlockTheBlue is so you don't have to scroll down through all the stupid comments by people so unreasonable they need to buy #BlueChecks to be heard when you just want to see what the average person thinks about a post a celebrity made...
https://twitter.com/RockstarRaccoon/status/1693455743746199988
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CW: Incel fiction be like...
"I, #JOEBIDEN, REFUSE TO SIGN THE #LEGISLATION THAT ALLOWS MORE THAN EIGHT PERCENT OF THE POPULATION TO HAVE #SEX!"
The #incels heard, and threw their below-average-sized hands in the air, their whiny voices silenced: now, only people named Chad would be able to have sex, taking all the hot girls named Stacy, and leaving none but unfuckable girls named Becky for the #incel! Powerless to go outside, for fear of touching dreaded grass, they did the only thing they could: they took to Twitter, using their #BlueChecks to post about their real and valid grievances against every minority ever. But then the #Woke tried to stop them by making everyone go to other sites, because they couldn't appreciate the brilliant rebranding that was #X!
Truly, this was the REAL holocaust!
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#TwitterDown #BlueChecks
"Twitter Blue is a mess."Reuters:
Analysis: Companies wary as Twitter checkmark policy fuels imposter accounts"Twitter's attempt to implement a paid account verification service has attracted imposters spreading misinformation, which experts said could lead major brands to further pull back."
https://www.reuters.com/technology/companies-wary-twitter-checkmark-policy-fuels-imposter-accounts-2023-05-02/ -
We all know about unsolicited #bluechecks but has anyone else been getting unsolicited #goldchecks? The organization I work for got one this week without applying for it. We’re a small think tank, we didn’t have an OG #bluecheck and our ad spend isn’t enough to automatically qualify us for gold verified status. We’re a little confused. #goldcheck #birdsite #verification #twitter
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#blocktheblue #Twitter
I've seen a few accounts get random #BlueChecks from actors to content creators who didn't have a blue checkmark this morning. So unless everyone bought them at the same time it seems odd. -
CW: Chaos ensues as bird site pulls checkmarks
Confusion as Musk’s #Twitter yanks #bluechecks from agencies https://apnews.com/article/twitter-elon-musk-blue-checkmark-celebrities-544cfd66ed3a62f51a8a80c20e11ac5b? "[W]hen the Elon Musk-owned platform started stripping blue verification check marks this week from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee, it left public agencies and other organizations around the world scrambling to figure out a way to show they’re trustworthy and avoid impersonators." #Musk #chaos
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Elon comped famous people on #twitter for #bluechecks like a mob boss comping a whale in the casino but instead of the whales going to play the tables, they wandered off to the street to eat chicken nuggets from a cart with the poors and fucked his profit model beyond repair
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years from now MBA courses are gonna be using 'the twitter years 2021-2024' as a module on High Profile Fuckups
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Magas : why do celebs get free blue checks
Musk : blue checks should not be for celebs anyone can pay for them
Magas : yay
Musk : I’m taking away celeb checks
Magas : YAY
Musk : I’m paying for some celeb blue checks
Magas : how is this different from the start
Musk : 4/20
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#twitter after blue check Armageddon
#meme #shitpost #Bluechecks #Musk -
A reminder to everyone: don’t pay for the #checkmark on #Twitter. Now that #legacyverification is gone, the #bluechecks stick out like a sore thumb on profiles, so better not pay for it to avoid the ridicule. #TwitterVerification #FakeVerification
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A reminder to everyone: don’t pay for the #checkmark on #Twitter. Now that #legacyverification is gone, the #bluechecks stick out like a sore thumb on profiles, so better not pay for it to avoid the ridicule. #TwitterVerification #FakeVerification
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A reminder to everyone: don’t pay for the #checkmark on #Twitter. Now that #legacyverification is gone, the #bluechecks stick out like a sore thumb on profiles, so better not pay for it to avoid the ridicule. #TwitterVerification #FakeVerification
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A reminder to everyone: don’t pay for the #checkmark on #Twitter. Now that #legacyverification is gone, the #bluechecks stick out like a sore thumb on profiles, so better not pay for it to avoid the ridicule. #TwitterVerification #FakeVerification
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CW: Birdsite commentary
"They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else." (from Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut) #birdsite #bluechecks
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We may've just made an app that changes the #blueCheck on #Birdsite, to a #swastika on red — #Fakebook same.
It may not be able to detect different sized #blueChecks, though.
May be hoping to release it on #FDroid.
#corporatismIsFacism #corporateWelfare #twitter #facebook #tooBigToExist
